Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction (Crime Files)

Preface
Acknowledgments
Praise for Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction: From Clear Speaking to Misunderstanding
	An Oblique History of Truth
	Doubt, Detection, and Closure: Chapter-by-Chapter Overview
	Works Cited
Chapter 2: Closed Worlds and Cold Detectives
	Closed Worlds: The Satisfaction of Certainty
	To the Street: Closed Without Closure
	Works Cited
Chapter 3: Cold Wars and Porous Borders
	Amateurs, Spy’s, and Private Eyes in the Cold War
	The States of Secrecy: The Long History of the Known Unknown
	Beware of Mr. Baker: One Man’s Quest to Find the Known Unknown
	Works Cited
Chapter 4: The Bleak and the Dread: From Existential Angst to Postmodern Paranoia
	To Infinity and Beyond: Beckett, Borges, and Closure
	The Paranoids or All the Facts You Will Ever Need: Libra and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory
	The Crying of Lot 49 and the Problem of Consensus
	Works Cited
Chapter 5: The Flat-Earth Society: Tracing Networks in the Contemporary World
	The Endless Hallways of House of Leaves
	Triangulation in The Wire
	Amateur Sleuths in the Post-truth Era: Conspiracy Theories After 9/11
	Works Cited
Chapter 6: Living in Two Separate Worlds: The Feral Detective, The City and the City, and the Problem of Relativism
	Case Study: “The Purloined Letter”
	Intersubjectivity: Toward a Rooted Cosmopolitism
	Donald Trump and the Secular Age
	Rockin’ in the Free World: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Embodiment
	Works Cited
Chapter 7: The United States of V, White, and Q
	Q’s on First?
	Vlad the Blackmailer
	Meanwhile … Back at the Capitol
	Masked and Anonymous
	That Damnocracy
	Works Cited
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Index